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	Michael Curtiz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Curtiz had a lifelong struggle with the English language and there are many anecdotes about his failures.
		Michael Curtiz is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
		Curtiz is often used as an example of a director who was not an auteur - that is, an artist with a recognizable style; he worked in many different genres, and did not use unusual cinematography or editing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Curtiz (587 words)

	Michael Curtiz
		Curtiz, I believe, knows exactly what he is doing here: calmly staging a spectacle that originated in the theater and which, like Ford in Mister Roberts, he wants to convey in that aspect to some degree at least, and we may be glad he did.
		Curtiz’s chiaroscuro drives all this bizarrerie like a well-laden prairie schooner, or the winds of history revealing a transcontinental railroad through the dust.
		Curtiz’s single best invention occurs in the “Choreography” number where the bleakness is interrupted by Vera-Ellen’s legs (between a pink dance skirt and a pair of matching shoes) descending into frame and tapping one foot at a time, first right, then left.
	cmulrooney.tripod.com /curtiz.html (1149 words)

	Michael Curtiz Bio
		Curtiz moved on to the more progressive Danish film industry, returning to Hungary in 1914 and serving for a year in the Austro-Hungarian infantry before resuming his directing career.
		Curtiz's first few American films were stylish but only moderately expensive: not so 1929's Noah's Ark, a superspectacular which bombed at the boxoffice but which firmly established Curtiz as a "prestige" director.
		It also set the standard for Curtiz' utter lack of concern for the well-being of his actors; several extras died during the climactic flood sequence, reportedly because Curtiz, hoping to incur genuine panic in his performers, had failed to inform them that they'd be deluged with literally tons of water.
	members.tripod.com /~curtiz/histo.htm (449 words)

	Casablanca: Michael Curtiz > German-Hollywood Connection
		Although Curtiz had a reputation for being autocratic, stubborn, difficult, and even mean—often hated by both cast and crew, he seemed to thrive on the Warner studio system.
		Curtiz had arrived earlier in Hollywood, but you never would have known it by listening to his English.
		As James Robertson has pointed out in his excellent biography, The Casablanca Man: The Cinema of Michael Curtiz, the director was 37 years old and had an extensive European film career behind him when he arrived in Hollywood.
	www.germanhollywood.com /casabl_curtiz.html (640 words)

	Classic Movie Stars: Michael Curtiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michael Curtiz was born December 24th 1886 in Budapest Austria.
		Tyrannical, and extremely talented, Michael Curtiz was one of Hollywood's most prolific and colorful directors.
		Born to a well-to-do Jewish family in Budapest, Curtiz ran away from home to join a circus at 17, and then trained for an acting career at the Royal Academy for Theater and Art.
	www.classicmoviestars.org /michael-curtiz.html (209 words)

	Direct Passion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Describing Curtiz acidly, Flynn commented that “he liked blood so much he insisted that the tips be taken off the swords.” Despite the conflict between Flynn’s light-hearted spirit and Curtiz’s intense drive for speed and perfection, Flynn’s finest screen moments were captured under the director’s command.
		It was the pinnacle of the studio system and Curtiz, often thought to epitomize the system, was a key player in the Warner success story, where he headed their list of “A” directors.
		Curtiz was not a man to rest on his laurels.
	www.filmsondisc.com /Features/Curtiz/direct_passion.htm (1305 words)

	Classic Films/Michael Curtiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michael Curtiz (1888-1962) was without doubt one of the most important directors in film history, yet he has never been granted his deserved recognition and no full-scale work on him has previously been published.
		This access to the production and financial details of Curtiz' Warner Brothers films from 1926 to 1953 is the most distinctive feature of Jim Robertson's work, most of it never having been made available to the general public.
		Concentrating on Curtiz' best-known films - Casablanca, Angels with Dirty Faces, Mildred Pearce and King Creole among them - Robertson explores his practical struggles over, for example, screenplays, his use of reality footage in his feature films, and the instinctive visual sense which governed his work.
	www.niksula.cs.hut.fi /~hrajala/ClassicFilms/curtiz.html (188 words)

	Director Michael Curtiz
		In Robertson's opinion, the view that Curtiz was a "studio hack"--or, at best, a skilled technician who owed the visual quality of his films to his art directors and camera-men-is unmerited.
		Curtiz is said to have seen the potential of Mildred Pierce as a film noir, as if he also anticipated the coining of the term: In keeping with his reputation for versatility, Curtiz directed some dire projects (Night and Day) and some prestigious ones (Mission to Moscow and Life With Father).
		Because Robertson is concerned almost entirely with Curtiz's public career, he intimates, surprisingly, that Cur- tiz may have become involved in several woeful films because he needed money to support the illegitimate children he allegedly fathered.
	members.tripod.com /~candide/index.htm (804 words)

	German 43: Resources: Biographies: Curtiz, Michael
		Although he stuck to conventional plots, Curtiz was able to manipulate them to showcase the talents of actors like Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Fay Wray, and William Powell.
		1938 was another landmark year in Curtiz's career with the release of blockbusters like The Adventures of Robin Hood (starring Flynn and with a score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold), Four Daughters (with Claude Rains), and the gangster classic Angels with Dirty Faces (starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien).
		The latter, a World War II classic starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and a slew of German exiles, won Academy Awards for best picture, best screenplay, and best direction, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made—a success he never matched again during the remainder of his career.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~germ43/resources/biographies/curtiz-m.html (303 words)

	Learn more about Michael Curtiz in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michael Curtiz (1886 - 1962) was a film director, whose films include The Adventures of Robin Hood, Casablanca, and White Christmas.
		In 1926 Curtiz emigrated to the United States.
		The interesting thing about his Hollywood career is that he did not specialize in any one genre.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/mi/michael_curtiz.html (233 words)

	Michael Curtiz
		His lifelong struggle with the English language has been confirmed in numerous anecdotes: David Niven, for example, took the title of his memoir Bring on the Empty Horses from a Curtizism for "bring on the horses without riders".
		He was married to: # Lucy Dorraine,actress # Lili Damita, actress # Bess Meredyth, actress/screenwriter After dying, Michael Curtiz was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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	Michael Curtiz - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michael Curtiz (December 24, 1886 - April 10, 1962) was a film director, whose films include The Adventures of Robin Hood, Casablanca, and White Christmas.
		At Warner Brothers during the 30s, Curtiz was extremely prolific.
		By the 40s Curtiz had developed an extremely sophisticated visual style which was marked by fluid camera movement, strong compositions and textured lighting.
	www.voyager.in /Michael_Curtiz (429 words)

	The Casablanca Man; The Cinema of Michael Curtiz by J. ROBERTSON [ISBN: 0415068045] - Find Cheap Textbook Prices & Save ...
		Michael Curtiz (1888-1962) was one of the most important and prolific directors in the history of cinema, yet he has never been granted the recognition he deserves.
		The book also examines Curtiz' relationship with the Hollywood studio moguls, based on documentary evidence culled from archive research at Warner Brothers, rather than the hearsay which has caused his underrating.
		The Casablanca Man is the first comprehensive critical exploration of Curtiz' full career, and as such is the first book to link his European work with his subsequent American films into a coherent whole, re-establishing his true standing in the history of cinema.
	www.gettextbooks.com /isbn_0415068045.html (258 words)

	Michael Curtiz \| Biography (1888-1962)
		Over the next decades, Curtiz would make more than 100 movies for this studio, including the world-renowned Errol Flynn adventures.
		Curtiz left Warner Brothers and began to work for other studios, directing such films as:
		Michael Curtiz died on April 11 in Hollywood.
	www.leninimports.com /curtiz.html (182 words)

	Angels With Dirty Faces DVD - Michael Weise Productions
		Director: Michael Curtiz and Bobby Connolly and Robert Clampett
		Michael Curtiz' "Angels with Dirty Faces" is one of those movies (like his "Casablanca" and "Mildred Pierce") in which the planets and stars were perfectly aligned.
		Curtiz moves seamlessly from the crowded streets, to the claustrophobic tenements, to the glitzy gambling joints.
	www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B0006HBV28 (257 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - We're No Angels -- Michael Curtiz - DVD - Wide Screen
		It’s Christmastime, though, and inevitably the holiday spirit rubs off on the hardened criminals when it develops that their host’s family is beset with seemingly intractable problems.
		Betraying its stage origin, the film seems a tad too talky, but the dialogue is generally sharp, and Casablanca director Michael Curtiz -- here in the last of his Bogart collaborations -- keeps things moving at a rapid pace.
		Ray and Ustinov reveal themselves to be scene-stealers of the first order, and Bogie contributes a nuanced performance that is bound to surprise viewers familiar only with his tough-guy roles.
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	VHS / Michael Curtiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michael Curtiz was one of the most remarkable pioneers of the American Cinema.
		The 1954 sword and sandal epic "The Egyptian" directed by Michael Curtiz was cut out of a similar mold as other 1950's movies with religious and ancient historic themes.
		The Michael Curtiz directed "Virginia City" was a glorified Hollywood Western spectacle with an accomplished group of actors who were inanely miscast.
	www.buymusicposters.com /music/directorsearch_Michael%20Curtiz/index/mode_vhs/index.html (463 words)

	FGA - Michael Curtiz
		Though literally millions of viewers have enjoyed his films, some of which number among the most famous films ever made, Michael Curtiz remains one of the most under appreciated directors of all time.
		It was Moon of Israel, an H. Rider Haggard novel, which brought Curtiz to the attention of Harry Warner and ultimately led to his emigration to Hollywood.
		Curtiz’s last three Austrian films starred Lili Damita, who a decade later married the star with whom Curtiz is most identified: Errol Flynn.
	www.filmsofthegoldenage.com /foga/1999/summer99/michaelcurtiz.shtml (539 words)

	Eighty Odd Years in Hollywood: Memoir of a Career in Film and Television by John Meredyth Lucas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His mother was a concert singer and, as children, Curtiz and his brothers sold programs in the many theatres and opera houses of Budapest.
		Almost as famous for his fractured English as for his directing, he was nonetheless a patriotic American and quickly became a citizen, learning far more about his adopted country than do the majority of people born in the US.
		Curtiz acquired a reputation as a difficult, not to say cruel, director, but it was simply that to him, the success of the film was the most important thing in the world, and he had no patience with anyone who did not share his vision, or worse, stood between him and his goal.
	www.eightyoddyears.com /bio-michael-curtiz.html (502 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sea Hawk [IMPORT]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Michael Curtiz proves once again why he was Warner Brothers' top director with a handsome, action-packed film that mixes intrigue and suspense with grand set pieces, concluding with a rousing series of escapes, chases, and a runaway sword fight.
		Michael Curtiz and Errol Flynn, who had previously teamed up in Captain Blood (1935) and the The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), join forces once again in this full-rigged adventure, one of the best of the swashbuckler genre.
		Director Michael Curtiz is, in my opinion, one of the great storytellers of all time.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JMR6 (1147 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Michael Curtiz
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	Michael Curtiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By the time he left Europe, Curtiz had directed over 60 films; he would turn out approximately 100 more in the US, making him one of the world's most prolific feature directors.
		While his European work was influenced by Swedish naturalism in its use of outdoor locations, in the US Curtiz would become an extraordinary studio director, using the back lots of Hollywood to transport his audiences to exotic foreign lands.
		Although many critics have labeled Curtiz a superior craftsman rather than an auteur, he left behind an undeniably impressive body of work: the noir melodrama MILDRED PIERCE (1945) and the wartime love story CASABLANCA (1942), in particular, are among the most successful Hollywood films of all time.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/curtiz_m.htm (230 words)

	Michael Curtiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) - Michael Curtiz / Bette Davis, Errol Flynn.
		The Sea Hawk (1940) - Michael Curtiz / Errol Flynn.
		Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz / Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman.
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	The Comancheros
		Michael Curtiz picked his final film to be his first with the Duke, and it's a gem.
		Without half of the intelligence but all of the fun of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" Curtiz's film takes a decidedly political bent, attempting to establish a mini-dictatorship in the middle of the desert.
		The Comancheros are a subculture of what appears to be mostly Texans and Mexicans using the perceived power of the Indians to create fear and open paths for gun and liquor-running.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/westerns/85852 (466 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Video 101
		King Creole was, without a doubt, the pinnacle of Presley's acting career; it's well-documented that after his service in the Army, the King's troubled personal life led to his downward spiral and ultimately to his porcelain resting place.
		Meanwhile, director Michael Curtiz was already on the downhill side of his own career, its zenith marked by a little film he made nearly two decades prior called Casablanca.
		King Creole was a final artistic gasp for Curtiz, and he gave it his all, most notably through the monochrome look of the film that perfectly evoked the seediness of the story's elements -- love, music, and especially the streets of New Orleans.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-07-12/screens_video.html (305 words)

	Amazon.com: The Casablanca Man; The Cinema of Michael Curtiz: Books: J. ROBERTSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ROBERTSON "Nothing definite is known about Michael Curtiz's early life except that he was born as Mihaly Kertesz in Hungary during the late nineteenth century..." (more)
		With Casablanca alone Curtiz secured a hallowed place in film history, but the coupling of that extraordinary title with The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and numerous others put him at the forefront of the cinema's elite; it is hard to imagine American film without him.
		Nothing definite is known about Michael Curtiz's early life except that he was born as Mihaly Kertesz in Hungary during the late nineteenth century.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415115779?v=glance (670 words)

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